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UN Agency: Water-Smart Agriculture Could Cut Migration Risk

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Water stress is increasingly driving migration around the world, but efforts to adapt to worsening shortages could help, a new U.N. study suggests. Water stress — not just shortages, but water-quality issues — is expected to drive more people from their communities permanently and cause rapid growth of cities, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Two-thirds of the world's people suffer some water scarcity for part of each year, with communities...

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